COLLABORATIVE ART FOR AUCTION

Acrylic Paint on Canvas Board, 12" x 16" each

These two pieces were drawn by my AP Drawing class students. I painted them with acrylics on canvas board in about three hours. I asked my students to spontaneously draw whatever came to them, then pass it around to the next student. There were originally three boards but one is missing. After the period was over, I took them and briskly painted them. I made changes and painted over some things that didn't work, but most of what was drawn made it in to the final rendition in some form or another. We were watching the movie, Where the Wild Things Are while painting- not sure what affect it had on the drawings! Max and Carol sort of crept their way into the painting on the right.

Marlin Art Auction was to frame six student works for free for our event this Saturday. I dropped off six pieces, though only one was collaborative (painted by four students plus myself- didn't get a chance to shoot it). They were actually really nice about everything and were very informative about what they do. After dropping the work off, getting a brief tour of the place and speaking with them, they never gave any indication that they weren't going to frame all of them. I  found out the next day that they refused to frame the non-collaborative work because they are trying to encourage bidding wars between the parents. Well, little do they know, these students' parents aren't coming! Potential buyers will be coming from the community but most likely not from the immediate families. Marlin will auction the pieces anyway, but will not frame them. They would do a lot better driving up the price if they were in a nice frame! Hopefully, they will still accept these two new pieces and will frame them for Saturday.